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Intuitive vs Hardwired - What's the difference?

intuitive | hardwired |

As adjectives the difference between intuitive and hardwired

is that intuitive is spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought while hardwired is (electronics) designed to perform a specific task.

As a noun intuitive

is one who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.

intuitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • * 2013 February 16, Laurie Goodstein, “ Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope”, NYTimes.com :
  • These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive , often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.
    The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
  • Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
  • Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
  • Having a marked degree of intuition.
  • Antonyms

    * non-intuitive * counterintuitive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
  • ----

    hardwired

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hard wired, hard-wired

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.
  • (electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
  • (computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example.)
  • Not changeable.
  • In humans and animals, genetically determined, instinctive behavior, as opposed to learned behavior.
  • See also

    * hard code